Tag: strange practices
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Confucius Analects – Avoid strange practices – 孔子论语 – 拒绝极端修炼
15.12 Choose learning rather than strange practices 子曰、吾嘗終日 不食、終夜不寢、以思、無益、不如學也。 The Master said, ‘I have been the whole day without eating, and the whole night without sleeping:– occupied with thinking. It was of no use. The better plan is to learn.’ * * * These practices of no food/no sleep are not to be followed blindly…